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**IOR/L/MIL/9/419 Papers of candidates selected for the Indian Medical Service, 1895-1896

*Ancestry, a pay website, in the category Schools, Directories & Church Histories has the following databases:

**"UK & Ireland, Medical Directories, 1845-1942" (Released October 2016).

*The ''British Medical Journal'' is available [http://www.bmj.com/archive/ online] from 1840 and is a source of information, particularly the obituaries. It probably has more relevance for English, rather than Scottish doctors. However, it is now only available to those who have a personal or institutional subscription. [http://www.bmj.com/search.dtl Search] the archives directly or access BMJ and other online journals through [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ PubMed Central] (PMC is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature). Some editions are available online at Archive.org (refer below)

Two histories of the Indian Medical Service, which also contain some biographical details are:

*''Surgeons twoe and a Barber. Being some account of the life and work of the Indian Medical Service, 1600-1947'' by Lieut.-Colonel Donald McDonald 1950. (This book appears in the British Library catalogue under the name MacDonald). More details about the book are contained in these reviews: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2068793/?page=1 Review 1] and [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2530269/?page=1 Review 2]

*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=t5ZRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR7#v=twopage&q&f=false''An Alphabetical List of the Medical Officers of the Indian Army 1764-1838''] by Edward Dodwell and James S. Miles (1839). Google Books. When viewing the alphabetical list, ensure that the viewing mode is two pages side by side, and if necessary click on the relevant icon.

*''[[Military_reading_list#Medical_Departments|Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930]]'' by D.G. Crawford. Review in FIBIS Military Reading List. The book is available as a [[LDS]] microfilm, with this library catalogue [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=287926&disp=Roll++of++the++Indian++Medical++Service%&columns=*,0,0 entry]. Also available with sample pages only Preview Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=DlK-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Volume One], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=olK-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA292 Volume Two]

'''Other lists:'''

*Lists of surgeons, and prior to 1894, Assistant Surgeons may be found in the ''East-India Register and Directory'', published 1803-1860. The ''East-India Register'' was superseded by what was initially called ''The Indian Army and Civil Service List''. Later these were separated, and the ''India Army List'' is the volume which contains the surgeons. Many of the ''East India Register and Directory'' are available online, together with some editions of '' The Indian Army and Civil Service List'' and other directories such as the ''Bengal Directory'', and may be found on '''[[Directories online]]''', which also mentions some earlier publications available on subscription websites. For details of these books and some earlier publications, in libraries or on microfilm or fiche, refer [[Directories reading list]]

*[https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:250247/ Uniform details: A.M.S.C. [Army Medical Staff Corps<nowiki>]</nowiki> India] Gouache drawing c1900. Brown Digital Repository, Brown University Library.

*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/by/year ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'']. An Archive from 1903. The "Corps News" may not be not indexed, but appears as a separate section at the back of each monthly edition. Note: the content of the Archive is '''searchable'''. Pdf files to access, by article.

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*[http://dare.uva.nl/document/124912 ''Their Footprints Remain: Biomedical Beginnings across the Indo-Tibetan Frontier''] (pdf) by Alex McKay International Institute for Asian Studies 2007 Contents page 6(of the pdf) Notes page 250 Bibliography page 286 Index page 304, part of the Digital Academic Repository van de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

**page 43, has a section in the introduction called "The Indian Medical Service and the Subordinate Medical Service". Chapter 1 (page 56) is called "Missionary Medicine and the Rise of Kalimpong"

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